AND IT'S TELLING THE TRUE HISTORY.....MY MOM AND DAD WERE BORN IN 1931 AND 1933, THEY STILL WENT THRU IT. MY GRANDPARENTS WERE BORN INTO SLAVERY. MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH TO SEE THIS AND THINK WHAT THEY ENDURED EVEN AFTER HEARING THE STORIES FROM THEM. NOW, TODAY THEY ARE STEALING THE LAND FROM US THAT THEY LEFT US.
Im 45 this year coming up, and from Kentucky! Thank you my God, precious Ancestors for what you did for us, your struggle back then is boiling over with a calling from God! Dont count this generation out yet!❤❤❤❤ many of us are still his chosen!
I'm 58yrs old black man I learned some very important facts about our Black American History. I'm watery eyed if only it was a Paid Holiday down to every state level enforced Nobody Works. Now that would make a statement to the whole country alone with MLK Day too !✊️✊️💪💪💪🖤🤎💯🙏🙏🙏🙏
EXTREMELY EDUCATIONAL !!! I have learned so much from this Documentary. I have shared it with several of my Family Members & Friends. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO !!!
I’m from the UK 🇬🇧 and I just want to add.. I love my people, we are strong , proud and resilient.. I’m also a , author, writer and researcher of black history.. praise be to my Nubian brothers and sisters who are standing strong 🙏🏿🙏🏿💯❤️
"Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom. I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom." Frederick Douglass
Oh STOP!....Gainesville,Fl just STARTED giving a damn about it within the last (5) years.And its really just considered a FEDERAL holiday.Because its a business as usual.Children don't go to school its just another day.Everything IF anything that's celebrated is all done "across the tracks".The whyt folks here aren't acknowledging it....
Boy who lied to you, my grandmother told me some slaves weren't free till a year after 1865. In the south its alot of shit that those perverted people did to keep their power. That's all they every cared about, power! The Devil is what it is. If your eyes are blue, pray pray pray 🙏
But some plantations didn't actually let the slaves know and made them keep on working for another few YEARS!...........January 1st 1863 what? @@leopardcubpupkryky6940 Clearly you didn't even watch 10 minutes of this video!
You were born 3 days after Tupac. reason why I bring that up is because 2pac said he wondered if we would ever get to see a black president. He never seen it. I appreciate you.
Excellent video. I was a baby during the Chicano movement, I really don't remember MLK only what I ve seen on videos, but I LOVE to watch historical videos. I Learn about the history of minorities. As a minority (mexican-american), female I support ALL minorities and remember a phrase my college professor used "we are not only the melting pot, we are the salad bowl "
Also, there's nothing minor about any of us. BLACK or BROWN. We're great people. We're great humans that have been wronged. We have been assisted by other great humans in our journey for rights. Other humans will be persistent in making our existence minor. But look at us. ✌&❤ to us.
Thank U so very much for this profound & educational report. I'm excited about bringing my family to Galveston to learn more about its vast and rich history. I truly believe this should be shown on prime time television!!!
That is beautiful. All black people need to learn their history in its entirety. That build dignity and pride. Each person needs to know their identity.❤
Yes Dwayne I agree with you. But now we know the truth. We need to know the truth of America, good, bad and ugly. So much truth is now known, White folks made it a HOLIDAY. Haha, no going back to the darkness. Truth can set you free.
Thanks for making this very informative video, everyone needs to see this video and learn about Juneteenth. I live in Detroit, Michigan and I didn't know a thing about Juneteenth but after looking at the video it made me learn more than what the history books are not telling us. Happy Juneteenth Day🇲🇺 🇺🇲
How can anyone speak about Juneteenth and not cry? Just to think of the horrors our people had to endure just to receive a right that God gave to us. We need reparation and we need it now!!!
This is very informative! I'm from Chicago, and moved to Houston in elementary school (1st grade). I never spent a summer in Houston until 1998, so I didn't celebrate Juneteenth because it wasn't a thing in the Midwest where I was every summer until I graduated high school. I never understood the importance of it until I was in my late 30s. Honestly, we didn't have much to say about it. But now that I've taken time to study, and really learn about the importance of the holiday and the significance of it, I'm honored to live about 2 miles away from the Freedom Tree. I've gone to just sit in its shade, and really take it in that its were so many people learned they were finally free. I cried thinking about all the heartache on that land. The land I currently live on. It was a part of the Palmer Plantation. It's a powerful experience! Thank you for this documentary! I learned even more about it.
Its still not important. If the United States really wants to show how sorry they are for slavery, genocide, redlining, bigotry, discrimination, ect...they'd pay ADOS reparations.
Perhaps your genealogy began in America with Wade Bowens, Sr. and Nancy Phillips Bowens out of South Carolina in 1840--Who knows? The diaspora is widespread. Lots of love to you from a common maternal namesake.
I have learned soo much from watching this documentary. And I for one will be ad advertising JUNETEENTH 1865 in my front window on the 19th of June, from now on... To keep awareness alive. I live in London and I hope to spread awareness and encourage everyone to look up this, part of our collective history. Sending Love
Forget advertising Juneteenth we don't need symbolic offering we need you to advertise for (reparations)!💰 the United States and the UK were the biggest enslavers there were so they need to pay for the crimes that they committed Against Humanity by compensating the people whose ancestors were enslaved!🤔💰💸💲
@@lisasuggs600 And what did they achieved? Did they get the 40Acle and a mule? Deuteromony 28;15-68. The curses do they fit you and your people? Read and see...
I use to have a neighbour whose son was in College and made a research on History, Economics, and Humanity. His older Mom told me that her Son was Horrified by what he found out in his Reasearch his son made. That the Bank of Wells Fargo and Bank of America funded the shipping that goes to Africa to Kidnapped the Africaans being Shipped to the USA. Also "when those Ships being Docked at port of USA, the Africaans are being hauled out from the ship and the people who Auctioned them are ready at gate ship...." She farther said that, "We are the Beast what ever my uncestors did is unbelievably Disgusting...." "These Banks Never Exist today Withouth the Sacred Blood of those Africans, because they also funded Slavery...." She Said.
Thank you! I have learned so much more than I was taught about Juneteenth. I did not know there was a Juneteenth flag. This makes me proud to be a black Texan, and Houstonian. I am a Jack Yates High alumni, and learning the history of the Yates family, makes me even more proud! Ignorance is really bliss. Thank you for educating me in Black Texas history! I have shared this segment with my family.
Hosea 4: 6. 2 Chronicles 7:14. Daughter of Zion, remember The Most High said to remember the days of old, not just days of a manmade day. Iwara Batawa.
It's your YTE School boards and supervisory boards that approves what is written in the history books, get involved attend meetings, be proactive. "If you depend on your oppressor to educate you, then you're in bad shape." ie Malcolm X.
Haha why is it always black this or black that or black history month or black history again in June? Why is this not just American history? What? You people need to feel special ? We all have had our journeys and trials... why are you special?
We really need to do a better job of educating & fighting for history to be inclusive & synonymous with American history! We owe a lifetime of recognition & respect to our ancestors for their unselfish contribution to our heritage & legacy in order for us to enjoy the freedoms that most of us today take for granted! This makes me proud & even more determined to respect & educate ppl more on subjects such as these to ensure that our history isn't taken lightly or dismissed as folklore! May God continue to bless our ancestors & also we the current generation never forget or marginalize their efforts!
What freedom? Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God. Apocrypha: Baruch 3;8. Arise and awake out of sleep!!! Come out of that 400 year old box and be refreshed...
You feel free? Any Caucasian can murder you and say that they feared for their lives and get away with the murder. That George Floyd bill is sitting stagnant in the senate, that is predominantly democratic🤷🏿♀️. Y’all are the same people that voted for old racist Jim Crow sloppy Joe, who’s continuously kicking us in our behinds and giving our money to Ukraine😡
Where are these documentary and panel when Reparations are being disgust? You can't have this knowledge and not be Reparations. They should be supporting FBA grassroots that not white funded really looking out for us. View B1 Professor Black Truth, Tariq radio. Hiphop cartoon's has good info as well.
Two miles at age 94? Bless her. Bless all of them. And bless Houston media for making this exceptional video. I grew up in Texas and Ive always known about Juneteenth, but only because of my friends. I remember it becoming a state holiday. But, when I began to travel outside of Texas as an adult, I quickly learned most people I encountered had never heard of Juneteenth. I couldn’t believe it and I educated everyone I could. Thank you for this incredibly well done history lesson.
Never heard of it till last year in ohio.. . Up here these days should b promoted . By black owned business with job fairs.. and education of being a free man by working for self or own . Most of us are just free slaves till this day.. who gives alltheir BRAIN POWER. TO THE CHILDREN OF THE SLAVE MASTER . TO further there society.. every ethic group have there on TERRITORY i see .. lil china town... where im at in ohio... the arabs that got tthe stores . Got a few acres with their seperated place. Somolians.. every one .. where do one go to see the blacks from elavery in america..o see what one produced?? All we want to do is play. party. And dance and eat.. alll these things we learned on the holidays . When slaves. Only day we would not get lashed with the whip..
I grew up in Houston. We celebrated Juneteenth and our parents taught us History. When I moved to Fl in 1989. They did not celebrate and when I asked about it, they asked what is that. I explained, as of now they do celebrate.
No one can tell the "Black" story best but a black person when other nationalities attempt to do it, it gets distorted and diluted and we don't want that🤔❤️🖤💚
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!... THIS WAS VERY EDUCATIONAL ABOUT JUNETEENTH... BECAUSE FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, THIS VERY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL MARKER WAS NEVER SPREAD ABOUT THE SOUTH LIKE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENFORCED TO BE!!!...THANK YOU FOR HELPING SPREAD AWARENESS TO OUR PEOPLE AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!!💜😍😃🙏📖⛪👍
@madmax6905 Learning about black history is not playing Black victimization. Why don’t you stop being racist and bias? So what is learning about the holocaust? Are they playing victim?
Thank you so much for making these videos. They’re made in such a brilliant way that it’s able to reach young and old audiences. I’ve learned so much and am only half way through! I’d love to see more content like this.
+Smith, exactly!! Our people are lost and do not understand how white supremacy works. Something Dr. Welsing has been trying to inform us about for decades.
So are you being chained, stripped and beaten with whips punctured with nails? Are you having to show a pass for you to go across town? Perhaps your legs are forced open by slaveowners at any place at any time. No, you and I are free to decide for ourselves what we will do.
Thank you for producing this important video. It solidifies my respect and awe of my ancestors who fought so hard and sacrificed so much to make Juneteenth a national holiday. It's about time. Admittedly, however, I want more. One national holiday does not make up for over 400 years of enslavement and continued discrimination today experienced by African-Americans. I want my 40 acres. Period.
@@MichaelJohnson-os2hp they promised the Natives and you see what that did, they were almost starved into extinction. They promised Blacks and look what happened, Blacks make up 75% of the prison population. Promises, promises,promises.
This is so educational, informative, and done so well! Thank you for sharing! I hope all Americans get to see this, especially us from Texas that grew up here and never knew.
Juneteenth was the month of becoming, NOT FREE, no; Nothing more than un-unionized employees. Only the independently wealthy are free. The rest of us are brave. Not free, just disorganized..
Judgement? Go somewhere and see how well you have it. All countries including African coy tries have displaced, enslaved and eliminated populations... Y'all are just in your feelings
I had no idea what Juneteenth is, just heard about it a few months ago when my workplace decided that it’s our work holiday/day off. Thank you for this. Educational!
@@ReglazeRX I am not sure I understand your comment. Apparently, I watched this today on my day off to learn about Juneteenth myself. This enriched my life.
Very accurate video, impressive and shocking footage that has to be used as teaching material, to make sure every kid in school will learn about this disrespectful chapter in history
The brick making they talk about, reminds me of the bricks we made in Egypt (in the book of Exodus) when we were in bondage their. The Most High gives us small peices of info to show us we are his choosen people.
Really, God has no chosen people, we always fighting and arguing about we the Original Hebrew Israelites lost in a weary land, gots no Identity, all this woe is me bs. All the opportunities we have today, sure there's obstacles but now is not the time to pity party, get a good education, stay spiritually grounded, practice decent morals and principles, set realistic goals, work hard to attain those goals. We have the opportunity, get out and vote, participate in your community, stop having babies out of wedlock. Stop destroying the traditional family.
THEM FOLKS claiming to have built civilization stole just about everything from us and took credit. They continue to do this. Growing up in school mostly around them, I will tell you it’s ingrained in their genes. Natural born COPYCATS!
Colonel Harlan Sanders the KFC chicken recipe, Uncle Ben's, Aunt Gemima, The cotton gin Eli Whitney stole the invention and patent, so did Thomas Edison's light bulb because Black's weren't prevalent to access to the patent bureau.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
The significance of this celebrated occurrence received magnificence when i realized this morning, the devotional I've been reading for at least the past 20 years, instructs it's devotees to read Exodus 3rd chapter. Kenneth Copeland's "From Faith to Faith" long ago chose for June nineteenth , the scripture describing the freedom of the Jewish people from their captivity. What miraculous foresight. What an intense gift in recognition of this day. Hallelujah!
@@missshannon9790 fyi, his free calendar was one of the few that highlights the Juneteenth holiday. Also he is of native American ancestry. Additionally, we don't adopt the hatred of our oppressors.
@@trymenot81 kinda like Walmart producing Kwanzaa and Juneteenth and black history month products for Black people to consume. WE are the originators of our sacred days. Not some pale face who profitted from putting HIS picture and the word juneteenth on a piece of cloth. Hatred had nothing to do with REALITY. Copeland didn't even depict BLACK PEOPLE to highlight on his calendar. It's a picture of an indigenous person. Some bullshit if you ask me.
@@missshannon9790 Sister, there will never be a day when those who fear the powerful image of Black people exercising their genuine freedom, will welcome that state of existence. They are afraid of being replaced and thereby eliminated due to our commitment to exalt mankind as our Heavenly Father has commanded. The intellect with which we've been endowed, ensures our victory when we adhere to His voice of reason. God's love.
SUCH A GREAT WAY to COMMEMORATE JUNETEENTH! THANKS, SO MUCH, ROBIN AND JIM for these introductory topics to OUR VAST HISTORICAL LEGACY! Unfortunately, so MANY people STILL remain clueless regarding these epic eras that had a profound impact on not only Black LIVES, but ALL LIVES! If children learn about the histories and contributions of the MANY people who sacrificed their lives to propel this nation into some form of decency that it is NOW losing, we wouldn't be as disturbed as a NATION today! Without question, NO ONE...NO GROUP of people are GUILT FREE! ERASING HISTORY by banning books, academic, and cultural KNOWLEDGE does not resolve the permanent scars WE have as a NATION! Through intellectual therapies, WE CAN PRODUCE children and youth who will CREATE and DEVELOP better methodologies to have peace and harmony! However, WE have to WANT it! May we pray and hope that we CAN achieve it!
The 40 acres and a mule was given to some freed slaves, but when Pres. Lincoln's V.P took over after the Pres. was murdered, he took All the land and mules back. He declared that America was for 'white' folk and always would be that way. The 13th Amendment did not make slavery a crime and Black folk really suffered after the emancipation and still suffer today. It was not until 1942 that slavery was really outlawed because the Japanese criticized America for its treatment of Blacks. America's history is dirty and they do not want the truth known.
Thank you. Had to ask why we celebrate this day when we were not truly freed. Soo much to learn and the sad part is that you have to literally dig to find the truth. We want recognition for our struggle so bad that as soon as something like junteenth comes around that gives partial confirmation to us we just take it cause we get so little.
@@dominicgilmore4349 Actually what you are seeking is in the Black History month. Every type of media is showcasing the history, personal stories and more. From there you should be inspired to do research. You have access to everything at your fingertips which is wonderful. GO through your own family tree too for more personal stories. If you do not have one, start one. It will be enlightening!
@@lumindina699 Greetings...I am taking in all the links of this History. So much to embrance and share and seek out the truth. Your comment has given me a new found duty to share this among family, relatives and friends. Blessings to you and yours always. 💛 Peace ✌
Like Biden doin Now Republican white President Donald Trump's Given Majority of Blacks Americans Unemployment Stimulus which was Way more money then whites SSI the Democratic party give white yet they criticize President Donald Trump's for Doin that for Black Americans People WAKE UP Biden is True Democrat One that MURDER Republican Abraham Lincoln's president for freeing to the Black Americans out of Ensalvement Torture Depriving Violating sacrificing betraying jails prisons chains courts warrants judges jury prosecutor Racist prejudice bias police military armies national MURDEROUS of Black Americans
Thank you for this presentation. It only in the last year that I heard the word Juneteenth. Now I have some understanding of the word and the need for its place in our calendar of national holidays. I will make a conscious effort to expand my understanding of the day and why it’s important for me to celebrate it too. I pledge to put Juneteenth on my calendar of days of remembrance
Sincere thanks to all involved in making this wonderful educational and historic video. The strength and talents of those people called "Slaves" who were exploited by their captors is phenomenal. 👍 The collective mindset of these ancestors speaks volumes and offer valuable lessons for all. Bless.❤ BARBADOS 20.6.2022.
Yeah, but this doesn't get us nowhere near reparations.. Juneteenth holiday serves everybody not just us! So now we got Juneteenth as a holiday, and Lift Every Voice as an Anthem.. That's just throwing us a bone🍖 so we can be pacified.. You can't take that to the bank (reparations)💰 is what we should be fighting for not a bunch of symbolic nothings🤔
I was bored in Wauwatosa and raised in Montebello,CA They Celebrate Juneteenth here in very large numbers here in Milwaukee,WI 53206 . We seem to speak only about Texas , Chicago and other "Big Cities". This City ( Milwaukee) yet practices "Jim Crow Laws", it is very racially divided . PZ Welcome yourselves here as "Guest and Visitors" there is a lot of "Black History Right Here". Bring Peace , Education, Love,Tolerance,Blessings to This City . Milwaukee is Hurting , Desperation is Apparent here .Bring Love N Understanding Plenty of Black Dollars r Needed here . Black People own businesses here. And Proud !!!!
Spend your black dollars in Black neighborhoods, businesses and establishments, listen to Malcolm X speech "the Ballot or the Bullet" stop trying to be accepted by people that don't love and appreciate you.
After being discharged from the Army, I had time to explore. Was stationed at Fort Stewart, in coastal Georgia. In 2006, I was driving in a very rural place, Evans County & Tattnall County. On Thanksgiving Day, I was surprised, not pleasantly so, to see overseers had Mexicans & other non-whites toiling in the cotton fields at around midmorning, early afternoon. I noticed the years 2000 - 2006, a passive aggressive hostility toward my family, we are mixed race Mexican - Irish - German Jews. After trying to smile & get along for six years, I gave up & migrated to Chicago. I was teaching English as a Second language & Adult Basic Education in Georgia, before leaving for the North. Some of my students were living in shacks with no screens, broken doors, windows. Mosquitos & bugs could enter & suck the blood of the hapless rural workers. I saw this with my own eyes. When I went to check on two students who stopped attending, a white man demanded "What are you doing talking to my Mexicans?"
Wow! I m born breed & raised in TX & have never heard of the Real history behind Juneteenth, never taught in any schools I attended including a Tx HBCU! Thanks, Our history can’t be boxed in the month of February!
I really enjoyed watching this it helped me to learn what Juneteenth was actually about. When someone of the opposite race ask about it it doesn't look good that you can't inform them of anything. Thank you to who ever played a part in making this information known.
PLEASE STOP CALLING YOURSELVES AFRICAN. AMERICANS ! WAKE THE HELL UP ! KNOW THY SELF ! WE ARE NOT BLACK, NOT COLORED, WE ARE NOT NEGRO, OR AFRICAN AMERICANS. !
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this exceptional look into the history of JUNETEENTH. I honor, respect and salute each of you who have brought this story to the masses. I grew up on the East Coast, not far from the White House. We never knew nor celebrated this historical day when we were in school. I learned about the day within the last few decades. A very special JUNETEENTH to the descendants and to everyone.❤🙏🏾
Same for me Marsha. PG County schools never taught us about Juneteenth. I didn't learn of it until I was about 22 when I met a guy from Houston while I was away at college.
I wish that I had a blanket of love and wrap it around the past, and perhaps slavery and just hate/racism with the black culture would never exist! Black people are so beautiful and my heart hurts because of how they were treated and still are treated! We need to come together and be as one just like GOD intended in the beginning!!!
if you are so ticklied with this 1619 Project voodoo BS, why don't you know about this: *Northwest Ordinance* The Northwest Ordinance, officially titled “An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio,” was adopted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787. Also known as the Ordinance of 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a government for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union, and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen states. Considered one of the most important legislative acts of the Confederation Congress, the Northwest Ordinance also protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.
There is an alternative to your blanket for the past; you; me can do better from now on! Just think how much stronger we could be if we all join up and pull on the same side; the "America" side!
I’m from Central Tx but most of my fam is from the Galveston area. We’ve celebrated/known of Juneteenth since the beginning. It used to surprise me to learn that most Americans, especially African Americans, had never heard of it then I saw the complaints about CRT so of course they didn’t know. Black people, not just African Americans, need to learn their history. our ancestors were not the meek feeble minded subhumans media in virtually all countries have made them out to be. People all over the world admire our heroes. It’s just in predominantly white countries where people are miseducated about them/us.
Yes!!! They were NOT meek or feeble. I’m astounded at their courage and bravery! Most Americans today have never seen that type of character in anyone.
Wow,. Still living the pain of the past. Though I, myself, was not a slave my ancestors had a depressing upbringing with oppression stamped in their DNA. My ancestors would then bare children and raise them in the only way they knew how,. In more oppression and lack of education and financial poverty. The cycle continues. Lord help
He said "not only laid the bricks but made the bricks" see is why when I first read that and thinking about the isrealites God had Mosses lead out of Egypt amen
